JANUARY 19TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. As soon as the Eileena had been brought in the coxswain reported it to the naval control, which at once asked him to go out again to the four T.I.D. tugs 111, 112, 113 and 115. The previous night, when a southerly gale was blowing, they had gone for shelter to the south shore. The wind was now blowing strongly from the north-west and the sea was very rough. At 12.30 the motor life-boat J. B. Proudfoot, on temporary duty at the station, was launched again and found the tugs close to the sand, between the Yantlet and Jenkin Buoys. They were short of food and coal. Their masters asked her to send a wireless message to Southend, and the reply directed them to go to Sheerness, which they did. The life-boat reached her s t a t i o n a g a i n a t 1 . 5 0 t h a t a f t e r n o o n . - Rewards, £7 4s..